[HPforGrownups] RE: Learning and Teaching

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 135300

weildman wrote:

> There is no way Snape could have been deviating from the books in his
> blackboard versions of Potions in the previous books.  Hermione, who has
> memorized every book she has read, would have noted the deviation early on
> and would have raved about the uselessness of the book.  

Please, Hermione is not a parrot. It would be really useless to memorise 
recipes. Not properties of ingredients, not general principles, but 
recipes?


> 
> I still think Snape failed the Wizarding World when he failed to update the
> potions textbook.

We don't know what's involved in publishing process in the WW. Maybe you 
need to be well connected, maybe you need to market yourself, maybe you 
need to be a winner of the most charming smile competition. I think it's 
a premature assumption that Snape didn't want to be published, as 
opposed to could not.

Irene